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Lamborghini Gallardo – Storm Chaser!

John — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:06:02 +0000

Progress of my Vue study, in the end I integrated the Gallardo from Maya using Vray.

Here is the final comp. click for 2K wallpaper, feel free to share.

Here are my work in progress shots.

Joan of Arc – Class 02 Nuke composite

John — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:29:01 +0000

Here is the completed composite for NUK216 class 02 of the Joan of Arc project.
Keying was hard due to the fuzzy out of focus background, luckily the background was dark anyway, so I just crushed those blacks and blurred the crap out of it :p

- Added and integrated fake reflections on sword
- Keyed out greenscreen, despilled etc
- Color corrected to taste
- Added post effects bloom and lens flare

Nuke script tree - Joan of Arc class 02

Vue custom trees!

John — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:24:29 +0000

Progressing with MOD302, I created these trees, bushes with custom leaf textures taken from my backyard.

Getting stuck into Vue – First environment studies

John — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:40:22 +0000

This term at FXPHD is the advanced 3D environment course MOd302. These are the results of class 1, diving straight into it, we were charged with creating a still promo frame where the Joan of Arc character is standing atop a mountain looking over an epic sunrise. This is my first time using Vue, happy with the results but then again its a pretty basic scene so… next up class 2!

STAGE 1 - basic environment

STAGE 2 - adding clouds

FINAL STAGE - more clouds, composition and main elements

Nuke training progress – class 2 at FXPHD

John — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:06:28 +0000

This is the result of about 2 days playing with Nuke for the first time. Using all nuke tools for the composite, matchmove & roto. CG was rendered using Vray multichannel EXR. Here is the nuke script, a bit messy but I’m just learning

Gigantactis Uglvious – Sea Creature Challenge

John — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:01:38 +0000

The creature is called Gigantactis Uglvious.
I used Zbrush, Maya and Vray for the final render.

Cheeers!

click for hi-res

Gigantactis Uglvious final beauty comp - Click for hi-res

2012 – Time to play with the big boys

John — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:22:35 +0000

Enrolled in the 10 week courses over at FXPHD, time to step up and play with the big boys and learn from the best.
The courses I picked this term are;

MOD302 – 3D Digital Environments
NUK204 – Intermediate Nuke
NUK216 – NUKE and Maya: Joan of Arc Project

Hopefully all of which will give me the ability to put together a kick-ass reel, this is going to be good

Mermaid Concept

John — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:20:19 +0000

For CGhubs Creatureplanet challenge, concept stage.

Check out the challenge forum @ http://cghub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8668

More Maya DMM simulations!

John — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:39:58 +0000

Here is another simulation I did for the Cerebus 3D movie.
Below are some test renders, just checking out how the wall’s mesh looks at render quality.

Elrod’s crappy sword – DMM shatter simulation

John — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:13:42 +0000

First pass